Mike Bennett (born December 12, 1967 in

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, New York) and Andy Plummer (born December 23, 1966 in Vanceburg, Kentucky) are a duo of golf instructors who have coached

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, among others. Bennett and Plummer are also known because the golf swing model they developed challenges some aspects of current mainstream golf instruction. Bennett and Plummer played in the ''mini tours'' during the mid 1990s and later committed to instruction in the early 2000s,Lewis, 179–80. after taking courses with Larry Bartosek, Tom Tomesello, Mike Bender and Mac O'Grady.Bennett, XVI.

The stack and tilt swing

Bennett and Plummer wrote, with Peter Morrice, the book ''The Stack and Tilt Swing'' (). The "Stack and Tilt" model prescribes keeping the body weight forward during the whole swing, straightening the back leg through back swing and performing a steep shoulder turn, all in order to keep the shoulder turn axis in place. The theory follows some ideas that are present in Homer Kelley's book "The Golfing Machine". The method was called that way because of the way the spine tilts throughout the swing to keep the golfer "stacked", or to keep the upper-body center in one place during the swing, and the name was chosen with the help of

. In Stack and Tilt the weight starts left (for righthanded players) and goes more left during the swing. This idea collides with mainstream golf instruction, but is shared by Sean Foley.Sean Foley: Thoughts on Solid Contact
Golf Channel. Retrieved 2010-07-13. The Bennett and Plummer model gained publicity beyond the PGA Tour players and instructors environment once a major golf magazine covered it in June 2007. Since then, it also received criticism from other instructors.

References

;Citations * Bennett, Mike, and Andy Plummer with Peter Morrice, "The Stack and Tilt Swing: The definitive Guide to the Swing that is remaking Golf" () * Lewis, Chris, "The Scorecard Always Lies: A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour" ()

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